Post by TheFirebrand on Dec 7, 2013 8:16:34 GMT -6
I've been in Pentecostal churches for more than 25 years and in the UPC church for over 20 years. This coming December 23rd it will be 20 years ago when I was baptized, and I didn't have the luxury of a heated pool. That water was cold ...
Anyway my point is that I've spent the better part pf those 20 plus years being persecuted by none other than all the churches I've ever been a part of around this country ...
I've shared my messages on some of that experience. The United Pentecostal Church is among the most arrogant, hypocritical, paganistic and worldly organizations ever produced.
Sometimes I worry if my baptism was even valid because the preacher who did it was stealing from the church funds to help build an $80,000 home. A prime example of the kind of wealth and greed that the UPC's more prominent preachers are loaded with. Not to mention the obvious satanic Freemasonry and "Seeker Friendly" methods used by them to populate the pews.
I've been voted out of churches for praying and speaking against malice and gossip in congregations. The pastor their was one of my best friends. The church board was jealous of our relationship. I've been banned by a church over my marriage that claimed they do not support divorce! I was held back from different leadership roles and joining choirs even during my spiritual prime.
There have been many encounters with visitors I've met over the years where they speak of being judged about everything in the book just on the first visit. I once had a man tell me this; " Too high class for me" ... These are not the kinds of fruit a true House of God would ever produce.
Instead they are filled with entertainment, materialism, idolatry, funny stories, all sorts of fun technology, tech equipment, computers and very expensive sound systems. What with all the lights flashing around it reminds me of my dance club days!
Conviction and reproach have been all but washed away. Now any serious issues in a Christian's life is spoken of like a comedian would express!
True Christians are supposed to be separate! Well they are, separated from the church, alone, few and far between. You reject us with your arrogance, your selfishness and blind, false enjoyments ...
Your comforts as well as your unbiblical beliefs are all going to be your undoing. You allow us few to do the suffering so you don't have to. So you don't have to die each day for God. You want to live for yourselves.
My heart is badly burdened as it has been for years filled with frustration, affliction and misplaced anger. I am burdened heavily for my wife, my children ... and for all of your souls.
Anyway my point is that I've spent the better part pf those 20 plus years being persecuted by none other than all the churches I've ever been a part of around this country ...
I've shared my messages on some of that experience. The United Pentecostal Church is among the most arrogant, hypocritical, paganistic and worldly organizations ever produced.
Sometimes I worry if my baptism was even valid because the preacher who did it was stealing from the church funds to help build an $80,000 home. A prime example of the kind of wealth and greed that the UPC's more prominent preachers are loaded with. Not to mention the obvious satanic Freemasonry and "Seeker Friendly" methods used by them to populate the pews.
I've been voted out of churches for praying and speaking against malice and gossip in congregations. The pastor their was one of my best friends. The church board was jealous of our relationship. I've been banned by a church over my marriage that claimed they do not support divorce! I was held back from different leadership roles and joining choirs even during my spiritual prime.
There have been many encounters with visitors I've met over the years where they speak of being judged about everything in the book just on the first visit. I once had a man tell me this; " Too high class for me" ... These are not the kinds of fruit a true House of God would ever produce.
Instead they are filled with entertainment, materialism, idolatry, funny stories, all sorts of fun technology, tech equipment, computers and very expensive sound systems. What with all the lights flashing around it reminds me of my dance club days!
Conviction and reproach have been all but washed away. Now any serious issues in a Christian's life is spoken of like a comedian would express!
True Christians are supposed to be separate! Well they are, separated from the church, alone, few and far between. You reject us with your arrogance, your selfishness and blind, false enjoyments ...
Your comforts as well as your unbiblical beliefs are all going to be your undoing. You allow us few to do the suffering so you don't have to. So you don't have to die each day for God. You want to live for yourselves.
My heart is badly burdened as it has been for years filled with frustration, affliction and misplaced anger. I am burdened heavily for my wife, my children ... and for all of your souls.